The French Smugglers - St. Denis and La Harp and Their Trade With The East Texas Missions - How They Helped The East Texas Spaniards to Survive by H. Gordon Pettey, Ph.D. - Swashbuckling times in old East Texas. These blazed the original smuggler’s roads--there are several. Few know that the early Spanish missions of Eastern Texas were, to a large extent, financed by the illegal French smugglers. There are many accounts describing how the old Spanish padres worked with these traders for a percentage of their sales. Without this cash infusion these missions would have failed much sooner. This is a rare bit of history that is little known. Printed on 8 ½” x 11” paper.

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